Szentendre

Szentendre - The Village of Arts

A Pretty Little Village

This town of arts and museums, a cultural paradise for tourists lies at the „gate" of the Danube Bend, at the junction of the plains and hills. A small town with a remarkable Mediterranean athmosphere, it was repopulated (following the expulsion of the Ottoman Turks) by Hungarian, Serb, Dalmatian, Slovak, German and Greek settlers in the 18th century.

Memories of this resurgence are preserved to recent days in the town's southern mood, Baroque-style houses, its seven churches, cobbled streets a narrow alleyways. Szentendre is the home of Open Air Ethnographical Museum called Skanzen, which presents the folk architecture of Hungary's most characteristic regions as well as the lifestyles and homes of inhabitans of villages and market towns.

The Szentendre Picture Gallery and the numerous other galleries record the rich past of the town and its artistic present. The recently opened ArtMill Cultural Centre offers the entire palette of Szentendre fine art in this exibition halls.

After visiting the churches and learning their different masterpiece, guests are recomended to sample „masterpieces" of fine dining: around 50 restaurants in the town serve not only the finest Hungarian dishes but a wide variety of international cuisine too.

There is an opportunity to just rest and enjoy a drink in the gardens of local con-fectionaries and cafes, or perhaps in the cellar of the Wine Museum.

High quality hotels and 15 family-style pensions tempt the guest to linger overnight.